Jack Kosmicki
@jakphd
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Statistical geneticist @ Regeneron | PhD @broadinstitute & @harvardmed | tweets are my own | he/him/his
Joined April 2016
A tale of two DTC DNA companies. While 23andMe is dealing with the bankruptcy fallout, Ancestry is sponsoring Ryan Reynolds' and Rob McElhenney's Welsh football club, Wrexham AFC.
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RT @AlexTISYoung: It's funny how people think they can just assert the linear model doesn't work without any argument or evidence like no o….
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This made my weekend 🤣🤣🤣.
@jakphd I heard on LinkedIn that this was an insider joke at 23andme research team. They used the acronym TTAM in their slides and one day, Anne noticed it and asked "What does TTAM mean in your slides?" 😂.
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RT @jimcramer: Amgen trial one shot a month but 24% instances of vomiting to start. Way too high versus once a week LLY. LLY coming out wit….
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RT @skathire: Today, we are thrilled to announce that @VerveTx has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by @EliLillyandCo. Fr….
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RT @chiragjp: Heartbroken to share my mentor & friend Dr. Atul J. Butte @atulbutte has passed. He saw potential in me and turned it into o….
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In the latest update to the 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki (i.e., not $REGN) won the bidding war.
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Year ago, the prevailing attitude was that deep learning would significantly improve polygenic risk scores (or anything else, to be fair). A rather important set of negative results indicating that isn't the case (though I imagine many will still try).
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Congrats to everyone involved in the long COVID GWAS - diligence and perseverance paid off with an association near FOXP4 that increases risk (OR=1.63; P=1.76e-10).
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🤯Wow, Kári Stefánsson stepped down from deCODE - end of an era.
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Carl Sagan was really ahead of his time. Absolutely prescient quote from one of his final interviews.
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It's incredible how far we have come from saturated mutagenesis of 1 gene (BRCA) in 2018 to now 500 protein domains.
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This is the most Boston thing I have seen in a long time 😆😆😆.
It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. I've mapped all seven Dunkin Donuts locations Paul could've stopped at on his route
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